Eric is greeted by a 'Hotshot' crew which he offers some strategy to, and they tell him to 'do what duecers do best, which is nothing.' The hotshot crew doesn't listen to Eric's advice and the small town they were trying to protect ends up in flames with everyone trying to escape. The crew is shown digging a line and burning up vegetation in an area so that if the fire gets there, it won't have more dry vegetation to fuel the fire further. Eric's crew is a second level crew also called 'deucers' which means they can't go to the front lines of a wildfire.

Eric's wife Amanda (Jennifer Connelly) is already in the kitchen and reminds him of a fight they had last night, and he apologizes before heading to the fire. He's getting all his supplies ready after being called to join in on stopping a wildfire near Phoenix. After the bear runs by it flashes to the house of Eric Marsh (Josh Brolin) who is the superintendent of the local wildfire crew in Prescott, Arizona. Out of the forest, we see the outline of a bear on fire running towards the camera. This movie opens up with what feels like a dream sequence in a forest with a wild fire going.The synopsis below may give away important plot points. Will the world ever forget that fateful June of 2013? Now, a heroic group of nineteen selfless men rush in the mouth of the raging inferno, to protect the lives and homes that stand in the way of the rampaging, all-consuming flames, only to find themselves trapped in the heart of the exitless Yarnell Hill Fire.

Before long, as the men yearn to prove their mettle, a bolt of dry lightning ignites a seemingly controllable wildfire near Yarnell, Arizona but, Eric already knows that all fires are unpredictable. With determination, self-sacrifice, and the aid of Division Chief, Duane Steinbrink, Marsh's brotherhood of dedicated young men become the elite Granite Mountain Hotshots: a fully certified, Type-1 team of firefighters for the city of Prescott, Arizona. Kenneth Chisholm that his highly trained, Type-2 municipal fire-fighting team won't be the one in the front line if a fire threatens their town, the committed supervisor, Eric Marsh, pushes his crew to their limits. All this is put to the test in 2013 with the notorious Yarnell Hill Fire that will demand efforts and sacrifices no one can ignore. In doing so, all the men, especially McDonough, are changed as new experience and maturity is achieved in fire-forged camaraderie. Along the way, the new team meets the challenge and the hailed Granite Mountain Hotshots are born.

To that end, Marsh needs new recruits, which includes the young wastrel, Brendan McDonough, to undergo the rigorous training and qualification testing for the most dangerous of fire fighting duty. To change that, Marsh gets approval from the Mayor to attempt to organize an unprecedented certified municipal-based Hotshot crew for Prescott. In 2007 Prescott, Arizona, Eric Marsh of the Prescott Fire Department is frustrated fighting forest fires when the Type 1 or 'Hotshot' front line forest fire fighting crews from afar overrule his operational suggestions to his area's sorrow.

Based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters who risk everything to protect a town from a historic wildfire.

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